Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to support maternity services to implement fully an expanded Saving Babies’ Lives care bundle across every maternity unit in England by 2020.

Implementing the second version of the Saving Babies’ Lives care bundle is a priority for NHS England and NHS Improvement. The quarterly implementation survey, which is used to monitor progress, was suspended during the earlier phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to minimise the burden on frontline services. This was reinstated this month.